// Inspect a live web page using headless Chrome. Gets screenshots, meta tags, accessibility tree, and runs CSS selectors or JS expressions against the rendered DOM.
| name | inspect-page |
| description | Inspect a live web page using headless Chrome. Gets screenshots, meta tags, accessibility tree, and runs CSS selectors or JS expressions against the rendered DOM. |
Use this instead of fetching pages with WebFetch or curl. This tool opens the page in a real browser, executes JavaScript, and gives you the rendered result.
Useful for:
node .bin/inspect-page.mjs "<url>"
With no flags, this outputs:
<meta>, JSON-LD, COinS)Test CSS selectors:
node .bin/inspect-page.mjs "<url>" --selector "h1" --selector "article .author"
Returns tag, text content, href, and attributes for up to 20 matching elements.
Run arbitrary expressions against the rendered page:
node .bin/inspect-page.mjs "<url>" --eval "document.querySelector('h1').textContent"
Open a headed browser you can interact with:
node .bin/inspect-page.mjs "<url>" --interact
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